Posted on 02/05/2021 8:06:05 AM PST by mylife
Nearly 80 cups of coffee for less than $3? Market Basket’s 11.5-ounce house brand ground coffee cans seemed like a deal too good to be true.
According to a Massachusetts man’s lawsuit, that’s because it was.
Two of Market Basket’s “misleading” coffee cans included less than half the number of rounded tablespoons that had been advertised on their packages, alleges a proposed class action lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court on behalf of Weymouth resident David Cohen.
According to the suit, Cohen purchased the Tewksbury-based grocery store’s 11.5-ounce House Blend and 11.5-ounce House Blend Decaf coffee cans under the “reasonable belief” that they contained 79 and 76 servings, respectively, as indicated by small labels near the bottom of the cans.
However, according to the lawsuit, “expert” third-party testing revealed the actual number of servings in the House Blend and House Blend Decaf were 39 and 37, respectively, meaning that they contained 40 and 39 servings less than advertised. In each case, the lawsuit says customers were being “cheated out of 51% of the servings they paid for.”
The suit says Cohen would not have bought the coffee cans — priced at $2.65 and $2.99 for decaf — or would have looked for a lower price if he had “known the truth.”
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I read a story about a guy that, for 90 days, had to live as if it was 1955. The two interesting takeaways were that there was really no “good” vodka available in the US at that time and, if you followed the instructions on a can of Folgers for making a cup of coffee, if you put a spoon in your cup, you could see the spoon from the top all the way down. ;)
i.e. the “makes 79 cups” claim is so subjective as to be non-actionable, legally. At least, that would be my take if I were on the jury.
A cup is 8 ounces. Four ounces would be half a cup.
Market Basket was the name of an operation in Holland during WWII
In baking a cup is always 8 oz
The audacity of companies now days doing every little thing they can to short the customer. They’ve probably kept the can the same size and reduced the net weight over time.
Why don’t the offer a full pound of coffee instead of 11.something pounds. Not even a full 3/4 pound. Greed has become such an overriding principle in commerce that people revolt against it.
I won’t even go into the failures of capitalism. This country was far from any idealistic capital state.
I am a fairly new coffee drinker and I am not a fan of the taste so I’m not into what constitutes good or bad coffee. I drink 1 or 2 cups in the morning of cheap instant because of supposed health benefits. I only use 1 rounded teaspoon not tablespoon for a cup. Is that quantity wrong? Are instant and brewed coffee different worlds?
Operation Market Garden :)
“if you put a spoon in your cup, you could see the spoon from the top all the way down.”
Absolutely Not, we’ll unless you like chicory in your coffee.
Remember, chock full of nuts?
“Are instant and brewed coffee different worlds?”
...HUGELY! Get a Mr. Coffee coffee maker. About $15. Filters. About $2. Buy a bag of ground “Peet’s” French roast. About $9.00. 1 large tbs. of Peets for a 12 oz cup. Excellent! I actually look forward to my morning coffee.
“I like coffee good and strong, so my rounded tablespoon “
Strong? I press as much freshly ground as I can into the double expresso filter!
Oh yes.
Instant is ok if you have nothing else, are only after a caffeine kick or are in Ranger School.
For a good cup you should brew. Fancy equipment not required but a french press does very nicely.
Heat your water to almost boiling, add two rounded tablespoons of course round coffee to press, pour 12 oz water over rounds, stir and put on lid. Wait about 4 minutes, push down plunger, drink.
Lol
Same people who sued over a can of tuna?
False advertising is false advertising.
Just like subway is going to get hit with fraud over its tuna salad sandwich not containing real tuna.
I am pretty serious about my coffee, so I have a fancy, horrendously expensive European coffee maker and an Aeropress. The Aeropress makes a cup of coffee every bit as good as the fancy equipment.
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